Quotes about Timing
There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.
- Os Guinness
Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—wait.
- Oswald Chambers
Never run before God gives you His direction.
- Oswald Chambers
Wait for the fruit to manifest itself and do not be guided by your own fancy.
- Oswald Chambers
When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word.
- Oswald Chambers
There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait.
- Oswald Chambers
Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move. Peter did not wait for God. He predicted in his own mind where the test would come, and it came where he did not expect it. "I will lay down my life for Your sake." Peter's statement was honest but ignorant.
- Oswald Chambers
never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
- Oswald Chambers
Our Lord never asks questions until the perfect time. Rarely, but probably once in each of our lives, He will back us into a corner where He will hurt us with His piercing questions. Then we will realize that we do love Him far more deeply than our words can ever say.
- Oswald Chambers
Never try to help God fulfill His word.
- Oswald Chambers
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
- Oswald Chambers
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
- Paulo Coelho